The Western
Cape,
with Cape
Town
as its capital city, is a
scenic, mountainous
province with an equally beautiful coastline.
The
sandstone mountains
have a granite basin. Clear and milky quartz crystal pockets are found
in numerous
areas, with the Ceres, Worcester and Villiersdorp areas yielding the
best
specimens. Some of these specimens are double terminated, with clear
and
coloured phantoms and other inclusions.
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Vredendal is an exceptional
mineral locality. It is a small agricultural town, some 300 km north of
Cape Town. A lime and dolomite quarry
(pictured left) a few
kilometers outside Vredendal, has yielded some very interesting mineral
specimens.
We have been fortunate to obtain (over several years) a large
collection of
these hard-to-come-by mineral specimens from this exclusive site.
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Vredendal, Villiersdorp, Worcester and
Ceres (the latter two both about 120 km from Cape Town)
are beautiful areas.
Nestled
between the Cape
fold mountains,
these areas
deliver beautiful and unusual quartz specimens.
Below we
have a selection
of crystals from these lesser known areas. All the specimens
on this page have been mined by ourselves.
(FOLLOW
THIS LINK FOR MINERAL SPECIMENS FROM THE NORTHERN
CAPE.)
Specimens
for
sale from the the Western Cape:
Latest Upload: 17 November 2016
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Quartz
Crystal with Rutile -
SWCV 001
28 x 17 x 11
mm
US $ 120
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Twinned
Double Terminated Quartz Crystals with Feldspar and
Dolomite - SWCV 002
44 x 38 x 16
mm
US $ 75
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Phantom
Quartz Crystal Specimen -
SWCV 003
52 x 37 x 32
mm
US $ 65
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Group of Quartz Crystals - SWCV
004
71 x 57 x 33 mm
US $ 35
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Quartz Crystal Group with Rutile -
SWCV 005
61 x 33 x 24 mm
US $ 45
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Quartz
and Feldspar Crystal Cluster with Rutile -
SWCV 006
38 x 32 x 30
mm
US $ 65
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Quartz
Crystal Floater with Rutile Needles -
SWCV 007
50 x 14 x 13
mm
US $ 150
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Quartz
Crystal Cluster on Dolomite and Feldspar Crystals -
SWCV 008
72 x 35 x 30
mm
US $ 70
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Double Terminated
Quartz Crystal with Feldspar and Rutile -
SWCV 009
61
x 28 x 18 mm
US $ 35
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Light Smoky Quartz Crystal
with Faint Phantom -
SWCV 010
44 x 16 x 14
mm
US $ 35
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Quartz
Crystal Cluster -
SWCV 011
41
x 33 x 23 mm
US $
25
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Double
Terminated Quartz
Crystal Group -
SWCV 012
134
x 69 x 48 mm
US $ 600 (Please
see Discount
Policy)
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Quartz
Crystal with Feldspar, Dolomite and Rutile -
SWCV 013
48 x 35 x 24 mm
US $ 45
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Very
Unusual Quartz
Crystal Group -
SWCV 014
58 x 40 x 13
mm
US $ 60
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Light Smoky Quartz
Crystal -
SWCV 015
63 x 31 x 30
US $ 35
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Quartz
Crystal with Rutile Needles -
SWCV 016
44 x 7½ x 7½
mm
US $ 25
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Quartz
Crystal with Multi-Termination -
SWCV 017
61 x 29 x 22 mm
US $ 40
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Quartz
Crystal with Light Smoky Colouring -
SWCV 018
60 x
23 x 22 mm
US $ 25
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Quartz
Crystal Group - SWCC
001
55 x 13 x 10
mm
US
$ 18
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Double
Terminated Quartz
Crystal - SWCC
002
61 x 15 x 12
mm
US
$ 18
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Flat Quartz
Crystal with Interesting Facets -
SWCC 003
42 x 15 x 04 mm
US
$ 12
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Quartz
Crystal Druse with Lovely Phantom - SWCC
004
67
x 49 x 32 mm
US
$ 120
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Quartz Crystal Group -
SWCC 005
32 x 21 x 16 mm
US $ 6
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Stubby Quartz
Crystal Floater -
SWCC 006
49 x
28 x 21 mm
US
$ 18
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Quartz
Crystal Floater Group - SWCC 007
58 x 29 x 16
mm
US $ 35
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Quartz
Crystal Cluster - SWCC 008
51 x 50 x 40
mm
US $ 125
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Quartz
Crystal with Lovely Growth Patterns -
SWCC 009
56 x 16 x 13
mm
US $ 25
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Quartz
Crystal Cluster on Matrix -
SWCC 010
47
x 41
x 40 mm
US $ 55
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Double
and
Multi-Terminated Quartz Crystal Cluster - SWCC 011
58 x 25 x 15
mm
US $ 35
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Clear
Quartz Crystal Cluster on Crystal Matrix - SWCC 012
30 x 30 x 14
mm
US $ 15
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Double
Terminated Quartz Crystal - SWCC 013
69 x 15 x 14
mm
US $ 45
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Quartz
Crystal with Lovely Termination Facets - SWCC
014
49 x 26 x 24
mm
US $ 35
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Quartz
Crystal Specimen -
SWCC 015
35 x 15 x 10 mm
US $ 7
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Phantom Quartz with Chlorite -
SWCC 016
23 x 18 x 15 mm
US $ 15
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Clear Quartz Crystals on
Matrix -
SWCC 017
47
x 42 x 21 mm
US $ 35
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Clear Quartz Crystals on
Matrix -
SWCC 018
43 x 40 x 31 mm
US $ 35
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Clear Quartz Crystals on
Matrix -
SWCC 019
53 x 31 x
28 mm
US $ 17
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Clear and Milky Quartz Crystal
Group -
SWCC 020
39 x 31 x 19 mm
US $ 12
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